Making boxes and baskets



(Model.)

J. HOWBNSTINE.

MAKING BOXES AND BASKETS.

Patented 00's. 3, 1882.A

WITNBSSBS ATTORNEYS.

N PETERS. Pmi@ lUNrrn STATES ,ATENT einen..

lVIAKlNG BOXES AND BASKETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 265,419, dated October 43, 1882.

Application iilcd August 14, 1882.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that l, JOHN HowENs'rINE, of Chattanooga, Hamilton county, Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Making Boxes and Baskets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object ot' my invention is to facilitate the manufacture of boxes, fruit-baskets, measures, and like articles which are made of sheets ot wood, pasteboard, leather, metal, or other suitable material.

rllhe invention consists in a folding box made of a folding side bla-nk provided at the ends with bookings, which, when the box is completed, pass into apertures in a bottom blank, which is passed within the folded side blank from the bottom.

The invention further consists in also providing the side blank with a middle or two side tongues, which pass into another aperture in the bottoni blank.

The invention further consists in a cover provided with a winged lng7 which is passed under winged lugs formed on the upper edges ofthe side blank, whereby the cover is allowed to swing upward and downward.

The invention also consists in parts and combinationsot' the saine, as will be more fully hereinafter described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ot' this specific-ation, in which si milarletters of referenceindicate corresponding' parts in all the iigures.

Figure l isa longitudinal View of the blank from which the outer sides of my improved boxes are made. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal view ofthe blank of which the bottoms ofthe boxes are made. Fig. 3 is a perspective view ofthe blank shown in Fig. 1, sbowingit partly folded. Fig. 4 is a perspective view ofthe blank shown in Fig. 2, showing it folded. Fig. 5 is a view of the blank for making the cover. a cross-sectional elevation of my improved box. Fig. 7 is an enlarged sectional plan view of the front of the same, showing the manner in which the tongue holds the inner and outer parts together; and Fig. S is a sectional plan view of the rear part of the box, showing the manner in which the tongue is engaged.

A strip, A, of metal, pasteboard, leather,

thick paper, sheets ot' wood, or any other snit` Fig. 6 isv (Model.)

is divided into ve parts by transverse creases or marks. The middle section has a horizontal tongue, B, punched ont. and the end sections, which are about half the size of the other sections, are each provided on the upper edge and at the inner ends of these sections with a lng, a, having lateral wings b, which are parallel and tlush with the strip A. The

strip A is provided at each end with a book-v lng, C,which is undercut at its base, this undercut forming a recess, D,in each end of the strip A,and which hook-lugs are in reverse position as regards each other, so that at one end the recess D is below the hook-lng, C, and at the other end the recess D is above the hooklug C, as is shown in Fig. 1. At one end the strip A is provided, at the upper edge, with a small lng, E, and at the opposite end it is provided with a like lug, E, at the lower edge. A plate, F, is creased trans\f'ersely, so that the part between the two creases will be equal to the width ot' the bottom of the box, and the wing F', at one side, is provided with a large aperture, G, and the wing F2, at the other side, is provided with a like but smaller aperture, H. The wings F and F2 are bent upward to be at right angles to the middle part, F, of the plate. Between these wings F and F2 the plate is provided with shortend wings, I, which are also bent upward between the upwardly-proiecting wings F' and F2, as is shown in Fig. 4. 'lhe strip Ais bent at the transverse creases, so as t0 form a square box, in such a maunerthat the tongues C and G overlap each other and catch on each other, asis shown in Fig. 3. Thelugs ware bent into a horizontal position-that is, so that they will be at right angles to the strip A after the strip A has been folded-and then the wings b at the corners ofthe box are bent downward to rest' at the adjoining inner sides of the strip A, as shown in the left of Fig. 3.

The cover K of the box has wings d on three sides, which wings are bent down to form a-nges, and at the remaining side the cover is provided with a lng, g, having two wings, 7L 71., which lugg is bent down the same as the wings d, to be at right angles to the cover K. Before closing the ends of the strip A the wings hof roo the lugg are passed under the opposite inner wings, b, of the lugs a a of the strip A, whereby the cover will be permitted to swing in an arc that is, from a horizontal to a vertical plane--1 the lugs forming a check and preventing the l ends, of a bottom blank having apertures iu cover from swinging back further than the vertical position. Afterthe cover K has been secured to the folded strip A the f'olded plate F is placed within thefolded stripA from the bottoni in such a iiialiiier that the tongue B, which is slightly pressed inward, passes through the aperttire H, and the overlapping tongues C and (J pass into and through the larger aperture, G, as is shown in Fig. S, the tongues crossing each other diagonally and resting in the inner sui-face of the wing` F and on the edges of the aperture G. The front tongue, 1?, passes through the aperture II in the manner shown in Fig. 7, the tongue passingdiagonally through the aperture H and resting against the inner sui-face of the wing F2 and edges of the aperture II. The lugs lil overlap the opposite ends of the strip A. An address caid or tag` is placed between the tongue B and the inner surface of the blank A before the blank F is passed into the folded blank Awliereby this tag will be held on the folded box in a very simple and effective iiianner, and will show through the slot in the front of the box. The box will tlitis be composed ot' three parts only, no soldering,hammering, or nailingis required, and when iiotin use the box cati be folded very com pactly for storage.

The box can be constructed without the hinged top IC, il" desired, and in that case the blank A will not need to be provided with the lugs (il. Fruit boxes atid baskets, dry-measures, o vster and ice-cream boxes, and analogous articles can be made in the inanner described out of paper, leather, pasteboard, nietal, or other suitable material generally used for the manufacture of boxes of this kind.

Having thus described niyinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Iaten tw l. A folding box made, substantially as herciti shown and deseribed,tot' a side blank provided with toiigues and a bottoni blank providtd with apertures, into which the tongues of the side blank pass, the side blank being folded and the bottoni blank passed within the folded side blank, as set forth.

2. In a foldingbox, the combination, willi a side blank having tongues at the middle and the vertical wings, into which apertures the tongues ofthe side blank pass, and 0f a swinging top which is held to the box by lugs on the upper edge ofthe side blank, substantially as herein Ashown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a folding box, the combination, with the side blank, A, provided with the hook-lugs C C at the ends and a tongue, B, at the niiddle, of a bottom blank, F, provided with vcrtical wings F F2, having the apertures Gr and H, respectively, through which apertures the hook-lugs U andthe tongue B pass, the blanks being folded and the blank F passed within the blank A, substantially as herein shown and described, aiid for the purpose set forth.

4. In a folding box, the combination, with the blank A, having hook-lugs C C at the ends, having a tongue, B, at the middle, and also having short lugs Il at the ends, one lug It] being at the upper edge ol" one end and the other being at the lower edge of the other end of the bottom blank,F, provided with the wings F atid F2, having apertures (fland AI-I, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

In a folding box, the combination, with the blank A, having the tongues C C and the recesses Dat the ends and a tongue, 13, at the middle, of the bottom blank, F, provided with t-lic vertical wings F and F2, having the apertures G atid II, respectively, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

(3. In a folding box, the combination, with the blank A, having the liook-lugs C C at the ends, the tongue B at the middle, and the lugs n, with the side wings, b, at thc upper edges,

of the bottoni hlaiik, F, provided with wings F and 1 2, having theapcrtures (.lY and H, and of the, top K, having` a. lug, g, with side wings, It lt, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN IIOWENCTINE.

\\"itnesses:

A. J. GAHAGAN, \\f1N'riIuoP Baan. 

